Most employers can figure out the monetary costs associated with overtime. When you’re paying your employees, in most instances, time and a half, it doesn’t take long to add up. Staying late and getting the work done may offer short term benefits, but take a look at the long term effects of continuous overtime. You will see the negative impact it has on…

Every so often a trend comes along in the tech world that promises unprecedented improvements in productivity and cost savings. While some like Agile Project Management deliver on their promises, others are destined to be forgotten six months later. When…

There is a tug of war going on between departmental budgets and IT contractor pay rates. As IT contractor rates continue to escalate, managers are caught in a dilemma: underbid and lose candidates or make the hire and exhaust budgets early. A happy medium between the two is possible if companies base their hiring decisions on the average hourly wages of tech…

Taking on new staff is an exciting time for all involved, but along with the new energy and sense of opportunity it is important to respect a sense of discipline and of strategy.

While you want your new recruit to feel welcome and to quickly bond with his or her new colleagues, throwing them into the soup and hoping for the best is not a very professional way of getting started: rather, a combination of preparation, scheduling and feedback will give your good intentions a structure on…

Every company tends to have its own ‘Holy Grail’ when it comes to recruitment and staffing, this includes attracting, screening, selecting and on-boarding!

For the past couple of decades, recruitment process was all about finding the candidates, tracking them and hiring them using some old school methods. However, the inception of web technologies such as video marketing (vlogs), blogs, social media, etc. have begun to turn the tables for human resources professionals and…

When you have a tough job to fill, a skill set that is in high demand and with a shortage of qualified people, you have to move when you can.  Too many times we see hiring managers hold to a set process of finding 3 candidates to interview before moving forward or something similar.

It’s great to have a good hiring process that works for you, but you have to think about the current situation and do what is best for business.  Candidates with backgrounds and skills that are in short…

Even when the unemployment rates are relatively high, most business owners struggle with finding and recruiting good employees. It’s difficult to become an expert in this field because recruiting new employees is not something you do very often. Therefore, you should try to adopt some of the strategies used by professional recruiters. A smart employer will recruit a candidate pool of potential employees before they actually need to fill a job position. Also, you can develop relationships…

People believe that finding a job for the HR graduate is very easy. This is because they are the one who appoints other people and they know how to get the job. This is one of the many misconceptions that most of the people from other fields have for the human resource management department. Even this field of work is still on the rise and in the talks by many, people also believe on these myths, and many take this as their option for the future without having required skills for that…

If you’ve already realized the power your web presence can have on your ability to make placements, then you are miles ahead of many of your fellow recruiters. Presence alone is a powerful enough reason to tend to the customer-facing side of your website. But a properly designed website for staffing agencies boasts a slew of recruiting website…

For business managers with better things to do, dealing with the employer-rating website Glassdoor can feel like a waste of precious time. Yet little could be further from the truth.

Glassdoor is one of today’s loudest voices when it comes to the reputation of companies, their processes and management. Over thirty million job seekers…

Are you tired of your career but hating the idea of going back to school to get a second degree? Luckily, you don't have to go back to school to get a new career. There are plenty of industries that pay well and don't require years of additional schooling in order to break into them. Here are the…

When most people talk about ambition and future careers, common professions that fly around the room include being a lawyer, doctor, accountant, and other roles that require an extensive and, not to mention, costly education. Nowadays, however, the job market for skilled trades are rising significantly and is prying more and more students away from the traditional four-year route. Nonetheless, it is crucial that…

6 Signs You Should Quit Your Job

Social media is one of the best ways to hire new blood today. You can get an instant feel for what a person is like and see the experience they have, before you even get them in for interview. Here's 12 of the best tools to use if you're going to started recruiting online.

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Everyone, at one point or another, has the uncomfortable experience of answering the question, “What are some of your weaknesses?” to a complete stranger in order to get a job. Job interviews are limited to first impressions and your answers to seemingly outdated questions. In addition to successfully landing an interview after…

This spring I attended the Indeed Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. Indeed accounts for more hires globally than any other source, so the conference was a great opportunity for me to hear about current trends in the market from industry leaders, and see other great speakers like Malcolm Gladwell. My initial goal was to write about what I learned when I first returned from the conference full of ideas and inspiration. The reality is, I…

Many companies recruit sharing as little information as possible.  Knowledge is dangerous.  The more the candidate knows about our business, the more they can find to object to.

Great companies work the opposite way.  The more they share the better.  Great companies come in all shapes and sizes and are in any industry, but they all do great work.  Sharing their vision, how they operate, what they accomplish, what they are building……these things show the great work that they do and…

The engineering sector is currently experiencing a lack of talented, trainee, qualified and experienced Engineers coming through. This skills gap is not just an issue for the engineering sector but for many other UK industries too.

What is a skills shortage exactly?

A skills shortage is when there are not enough people with a…